Bellingham Bay Washington Things To Do Along Bellingham Bay
Bellingham Bay Washington was named after a friend of Captain George Vancouver during his exploration of the Pacific Northwest. Bellingham's downtown and Bellingham Bay are a lively place during the warmer months with lots of private boats and sailboats packing the harbor.
Bellingham is also a popular departure port for the San Juan Islands with a number of yacht charter companies and whale watching excursion boats. Locals can also enjoy an inexpensive bay cruise, seafood dinner cruise and other special event cruises like the annual 4th of July cruise.
If you are looking for things to do in Bellingham consider visiting the waterfront and enjoy one of several parks.
This video was created with video and photos I took around Bellingham and in my travels. The titles, graphics and special effects were created with video and photo editing software on my computer. All Rights Reserved.
MUSIC BY
Music Courtesy Of The YouTube Audio Library
Small Outdoor Gathering
Fargo
Tracer
All This Down Time
Visit my website at
Welcome to Bellingham, Washington!
Bellingham Bay was named by Captain George Vancouver when he charted the waters of northwestern Washington state in 1792. The bay was named for Sir William Bellingham, the chief accountant of the British Navy who provided supplies to Vancouver for his explorations.
The inland sea was named Puget Sound for Lieutenant Peter Puget, who served under Vancouver. When the third lieutenant, Joseph Baker, sighted a large, snow-capped mountain, Vancouver promptly named it Mount Baker.
The original inhabitants of what is now Bellingham were the Lummi Indians who lived off the land harvesting fish, shellfish, plants, deer, and other game animals. Captain Vancouver found a community of about 3,000 people living there. Today’s Lummi, Semiahmoo, Nooksack, and other Coast Salish people are descendants of peoples who made a great trek over the land bridge that once connected Asia to North America as long as 12,000 years ago.
About 60 years after Vancouver’s voyage, Henry Roeder and Russell V. Peabody from San Francisco came in 1852 looking for lumber to supply their town’s growing demands. They asked the Lummi chief if he knew of a place where water fell all the time from a high hill. The chief led them to Whatcom Falls where they built a saw mill and produced lumber until it burned in 1873. Roeder and his wife, Elizabeth, became the first white settlers in Whatcom County. Their son, Victor, founded Bellingham National Bank and in 1903, built a stately Craftsman-style home that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was donated to the county in 1971 for use as a cultural and social center.Whatcom falls bellingham waWhatcom falls.
In 1856, Captain George E. Pickett was sent to the area with a company of infantry to protect settlers from the Haida Indians. He built Fort Bellingham, the town’s first bridge, and a wood-frame ho
Get your site listed now on Google's front page
Read More
Bellingham's Boulevard Park by ExplorationsNorthwest.com
This segment from Explorations Northwest details the amenities and recent improvements to Boulevard Park and the South Bay Trail along beautiful Bellingham Bay, on Puget Sound in Northwest Washington.
In addition to ample parking, large lawns, and picnic tables, Boulevard Park also has a few small beaches. There's also a new stage for a host of events, including the extremely popular Evening Concert Series. The Woods Coffee is another wonderful addition to the park.
Boulevard Park is situated along the South Bay Trail, which leads to downtown Bellingham and historic Fairhaven, via the new over-the-water walkway and Taylor Avenue Dock. The park and trails feature absolutely stunning views of the San Juan Islands and Fairhaven bay.
Boulevard Park is really the perfect place to start an adventure, whether you are just planning a leisurely stroll with the dog or you have something more energetic in mind.
Free music by DanoSongs.com
All materials produced by ExplorationsNorthwest.com are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without prior written permission, or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content.
The Five Regions of Washington State.wmv
VLOG 092: Carnation, WA
Check out Mumzies' online store at:
June 2019
Spending the day in Carnation, WA. Checking out the only medieval village in the United States, Camlann Medieval Village!
Music by:
347ft High Abandoned Railroad Bridge - Vance Creek Bridge, Washington State - #ThatNWBridge
**Disclaimer** - Not only is this bridge EXTREMELY dangerous to walk across, but it's located on private property and police are known to patrol the area issuing tickets to trespassers. Proceed at your own risk.
Vance Creek Bridge
Outside Shelton, Washington, United States
347 feet high
422 foot span
Built by the American Bridge Company in 1929
The second highest railway arch bridge ever built in the United States.
2016 October LQ: Pacific Northwest Coastal Clean-up
Learn how Lions in the Pacific Northwest United States are partnering for coastal clean-up.
Toast, tsunamis and the really big one | Chris Goldfinger | TEDxMtHood
Originally hailing from Palo Alto, Chris married a Salem girl and is currently Professor of Marine Geology at Oregon State University. His dad worked for NASA; so growing up in a house filled with stuff from the early probes like Voyager, Ranger, Surveyor, etc. made interest in earth sciences a natural progression. He is also into windsurfing, ocean sailing, and aerobatic flying.
Dr. Chris Goldfinger is a marine geologist and geophysicist whose focus is on great earthquakes and the structure of subduction zones around the world. He is experienced using deep submersibles, multi-beam and side scan sonar, seismic reflection, and other marine geophysical tools all over the world. Recently, Chris was in the national spotlight after being featured in Kathryn Schulz’s article in The New Yorker, “The Really Big One.” His extensive research on the Cascadia subduction zone yielded an earthquake record extending through the Holocene epoch helping to develop a model of segmentation and earthquake recurrence. Conclusion: our area is overdue for a major earthquake.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Part Two: 2009 Old Settlers Picnic and Pioneer Park by ExplorationsNorthwest.com
Come along as Explorations Northwest highlights the importance of history and our cultural traditions, during the 2009 Whatcom County Old Settlers Picnic at Pioneer Park in Ferndale, WA.
During this episode, Explorations Northwest visits the annual Old Settlers Picnic and Ferndale's Pioneer Park, which showcases the largest collection of hand-hewn cedar log buildings in the world.
While covering Ferndale's annual celebration, parades, and carnival, we highlight the determined efforts of dedicated volunteers, who are working tirelessly to preserve local history and longstanding cultural traditions in the face of rapid social change.
We also profile the activities of the Ferndale Heritage Society and highlight the critically important social functions served by the rituals and customs embodied in the celebrations and parades of small town America.
Free music by DanoSongs.com
© 2009, Explorations Northwest, Produced August 3, 2009
All materials produced by ExplorationsNorthwest.com are protected by United States copyright law and may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, displayed, published or broadcast without prior written permission, or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content.
Western Window episode 39
WESTERN WINDOW TELEVISION SHOW
Episode 39
3:15
This month’s show is hosted by Chris Roselli of the WWU Alumni Association and Al Dowling, a student at Western. Following is the story lineup for this episode:
1. Making a Difference in the World – Alumna Debra Atwood (’77) is the executive director of the Meridian Institute’s Agree initiative, a project building consensus and catalyzing action worldwide around issues of food, agriculture and sustainability. (1:05)
2. Professor of the Year ¬– The Department of Theatre and Dance’s Rich Brown was recently named the Carnegie State Professor of the Year for Washington state, an honor encompassing every faculty member in Washington regardless of department, tenure status, or seniority. It’s the second time in three years that a Western professor has been given this award. (6:56)
3. Making Sense of the Sea ¬– Western’s Shannon Point Marine Center in Anacortes is a nexus of graduate, undergraduate and K-12 collaboration around the concept of ocean literacy. Its faculty work on high-level research in areas from ecosystem destruction to ocean acidification while at the same time performing hugely important outreach activities with local grade schoolers. (11:00)
4. Bringing Art Indoors – Alumnus Claude Zervas is a sculptor and artist who blends nature and technology in novel new ways, such as the new installation “Nooksack Middle Fork” located in the Performing Arts Center on Western’s campus. (17:47)
5. Black Excellence at Western – Western hosted its first ever Black Excellence Conference and Ball last month to bring students together and build community. (22:04)
Pacific Northwest | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Pacific Northwest
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written
language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through
audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio
while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using
a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
In case you don't find one that you were looking for, put a comment.
This video uses Google TTS en-US-Standard-D voice.
SUMMARY
=======
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broader conceptions reach north into Southeast Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east of the Continental Divide to include Western Montana and parts of Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US, or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, culture, geography, society, and other factors.
The Northwest Coast is the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest Plateau (also commonly known as the Interior in British Columbia and the Inland Empire in the United States) is the inland region. The term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory (also known as the Great Northwest, a historical term in the United States) or the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle, Washington, with 3.8 million people; Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, with 2.5 million people; and Greater Portland, Oregon, with 2.4 million people.A key aspect of the Pacific Northwest is the US–Canada international border, which the United States and the United Kingdom established at a time when the region's inhabitants were composed mostly of indigenous peoples. The border—in two sections, along the 49th parallel south of British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle west of northern British Columbia—has had a powerful effect on the region. According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest—rather, the region's history and character have been determined by the boundary.
American Truck Sim #63 - Pallets to Portland
Enjoyable trucking across the western United States!
We continue our exploration of the Pacific Northwest with a load of pallets.
twitter:
twitch livestream:
mailbox: TheSpearSTL@gmail.com
Western Window Episode 43
WESTERN WINDOW TELEVISION SHOW
Episode 43
This month’s show is hosted by Chris Roselli of the WWU Alumni Association and Kevin Miller, a student at Western. Following is the story lineup for this episode:
1. Cultivating Compassion – Western alumna Emily Hine (’89) has helped raise over $150 million for nonprofits across the country, all with the central overarching goal of increasing peace and compassion on the planet. (1:05)
2. Mars Invasion! – Bellingham recently hosted an event for NASA scientists, researchers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Western’s own Mars expert, Melissa Rice, to talk about what is coming in terms of our collective efforts to explore and potentially colonize the Red Planet. (7:58)
3. Learning to be Global – Western already has a deep connection with Mongolia due to its East Asian Studies program and one also housing on the world’s largest collections of Mongolian books and literature. But a recent trip to the country by faculty, staff and students paved the way for even stronger ties. (12:42)
4. Engineering Passion – Western and its Vehicle Research Institute were called by Automobile Magazine as “very possibly the best school in the country for total car design.” Pushing to find cutting edge alternative-fuel vehicles that are capable of being mass produced, what is it that drives these students to succeed, let alone spend an additional 60 hours a week in the shop? (19:23)
5. First Steps to Sustainability – Camp Lutherwood is an environmental-learning experience for 5th graders led by students from Western’s Huxley College of the Environment with the goal of planting the seed of environmental stewardship in the young minds of the campers. (23:30)
Coming to the Islands - Sept. 30, 2011
Michael C. Wilson presented Coming to the Islands: Early Postglacial Vertebrates and Ecosystem Development on the San Juans and Vancouver Island as part of Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment speaker series at noon on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011.
The establishment and succession of early postglacial Pacific Northwest vegetation communities have been interpreted in terms of climatic factors, with vegetation as a container for the fauna. However, first arrivals of particular plant species often depended upon appropriate vectors that included not only wind and water, but also birds and mammals.
Megafauna such as ungulates (hoofed mammals) and carnivores were significant influences. Each species had its own arrival time on Vancouver Island via filter bridges, one via the San Juan Islands. Mountain goats arrived on Vancouver Island about 13,000 years ago; giant bison were present on the San Juan Islands and southeastern Vancouver Island at about the same time. Ground sloths reached Orcas Island, and the giant short-faced bear is documented on San Juan Island. Each species could have imported plant propagules (any plant material used for the purpose of plant propagation), setting in motion an historical cascade of community responses.
Michael C. Wilson is an interdisciplinary earth scientist trained in Geology, Archaeology, and Anthropology. His studies of paleontology, paleoenvironments, and the relationships between humans and landscapes have taken him to China, Japan, and West Africa as well as many areas of Canada, the United States, and Mexico. At present he is studying Late Pleistocene and Holocene animals of the Pacific Northwest to understand their role in the establishment of postglacial ecosystems. He is chair of the Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences at Douglas College in New Westminster, British Columbia, and is adjunct professor of Archaeology at Simon Frasier University. He is also a Fellow of the Geological Association of Canada.
Anyone interested in this topic is encouraged to come and participate; the presentation will include a question-and-answer period. The speaker series is held by Western's Huxley College of the Environment to bring together the environmental-science community and other interested members of the WWU and Bellingham communities. Speakers address topics of contemporary environmental concern in the region and the world.
For more information, please contact Western Washington University's Huxley College of the Environment at (360) 650-3520.
Western's Huxley College of the Environment is one of the oldest environmental colleges in the nation and a recognized national leader in producing the next generation of environmental stewards. The College's academic programs reflect a broad view of the physical, biological, social and cultural world. This innovative and interdisciplinary approach makes Huxley unique. The College has earned international recognition for the quality of its programs.
Western Window Episode 49
This month’s show is hosted by Chris Roselli of WWU’s Front Door to Discovery program and Rahwa Hailemariam, a student at Western. Following is the story lineup for this episode:
1. Temple: Author, Activist, Autistic – Temple Grandin, who has been called “the most famous person with autism in the world,” took some time from her recent visit to WWU to talk in studio about her life, her hopes for young people with her condition, and what drives her to make a difference in the world every day. (0:56)
2. Discussing the Columbia River Treaty – Western recently hosted a symposium on the Columbia River Treaty – an agreement between the U.S. and Canada to provide energy and flood control through the Columbia basin – that is now up for renewal. What are the pros and cons, from the perspectives of business, the public, the environment, First Nations and Tribes, fisheries, and energy providers, to renew the treaty? (8:25)
3. Undeterred – Western’s Jeffrey Parker, a native of Oakland, California, is the school’s all-time leading scorer in men’s basketball. What made him choose Western, and four years later, what memories will he leave Bellingham with? (14:15)
4. Inspiring Through Arts Education – Bellingham’s BAAY- Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth – utilizes Western alums and students to bring an arts-based curriculum to local youth. (19:58)
5. Cold Cuts – WWU student and Bellingham Sportsplex employee Peter Beeler is in charge of the single most important piece of equipment in any ice rink: the Zamboni. (23:22)
Abandoned - Toys R Us
After much request, today I wanted to take a deeper look into the worlds most famous and iconic children's toy store that became a staple of millions childhoods, only to crumble in 2018. Lets take a look at Toys R Us.
Twitter -
Instagram -
Snapchat -
Patreon -
Personal Twitter -
Personal Instagram -
DayToDayWithJay -
------------------------
BrightSunFilms 2018
'Finding History in Our Own Back Yard' - 3/4/2008
Western Washington University Professor Chris Friday will present Finding History in Our Own Backyard: Georgia Pacific, Your House, Your Neighborhood and Public History at WWU from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 4, at the Bellingham City Council chambers, Bellingham City Hall, 210 Lottie St.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is offered as the second event of the annual WWU College of Humanities and Social Sciences Dean's Lecture Series.
Writer Maxing Hong Kingston once noted that America and especially the American West was a place devoid of history because it was a land without ghosts. As true as that may have been from her Chinese American perspective growing up in the 1950s, Kingston missed an opportunity to understand that the landscape around us is filled with many ghostscapes - the layered meanings and perspectives we create about places across cultures and times. What happens when we consider our own local, familiar landscape in historical perspective? What happens when we disagree on the meaning of familiar places, especially because we see them through lenses we create out of our own peculiar understandings of history and place? How do Western students, the University, and the community benefit from thinking about the local landscape historically?
This lecture will attempt to answer these questions. Friday will also present the Georgia Pacific/Waterfront Oral History project and the current Bellingham Historic Neighborhood project that connect WWU students with the local community in the exploration of history outside the classroom.
Chris Friday is a professor of History at Western Washington University. Friday grew up near Mount St. Helens, got his bachelor's degree at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, then received his master's degree and doctorate in American History from UCLA. He lived in China for nearly two years in the early 1980s and taught in the Boston area prior to coming to WWU in 1992. At WWU, Friday's teaching and research/publication areas are Pacific Northwest History, American Indian History, and Asian American History. For most of the last decade, Friday has also been director of the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies at Western Washington University (an archives and small research institute). Most recently, Friday started a Public History minor at WWU, which is designed to help students see the connections between their interest in history as an academic subject and history as a discipline practiced in settings well beyond teaching in any classroom.
The purpose of the Dean's Community Lecture Series is to foster connections between the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the local community. What better way to make such connections than learning about our city from our own historians, such as Chris Friday, said Ron Kleinknecht, CHSS dean.
Friday's presentation will also be taped and rebroadcast on Bellingham BTV 10.
Pacific Northwest | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Pacific Northwest
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
You can find other Wikipedia audio articles too at:
You can upload your own Wikipedia articles through:
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in western North America bounded by the Pacific Ocean to the west and (loosely) by the Cascade Mountain Range on the east. Though no official boundary exists, the most common conception includes the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. states of Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Broader conceptions reach north into Southeast Alaska and Yukon, south into northern California, and east of the Continental Divide to include Western Montana and parts of Wyoming. Narrower conceptions may be limited to the northwestern US, or to the coastal areas west of the Cascade and Coast mountains. The variety of definitions can be attributed to partially overlapping commonalities of the region's history, culture, geography, society, and other factors.
The Northwest Coast is the coastal region of the Pacific Northwest, and the Northwest Plateau (also commonly known as the Interior in British Columbia and the Inland Empire in the United States) is the inland region. The term Pacific Northwest should not be confused with the Northwest Territory (also known as the Great Northwest, a historical term in the United States) or the Northwest Territories of Canada.
The region's largest metropolitan areas are Greater Seattle, Washington, with 3.8 million people; Greater Vancouver, British Columbia, with 2.5 million people; and Greater Portland, Oregon, with 2.4 million people.A key aspect of the Pacific Northwest is the US–Canada international border, which the United States and the United Kingdom established at a time when the region's inhabitants were composed mostly of indigenous peoples. The border—in two sections, along the 49th parallel south of British Columbia and the Alaska Panhandle west of northern British Columbia—has had a powerful effect on the region. According to Canadian historian Ken Coates, the border has not merely influenced the Pacific Northwest—rather, the region's history and character have been determined by the boundary.
Western Window Episode 44
WESTERN WINDOW TELEVISION SHOW
Episode 44
This month’s show is hosted by Chris Roselli of the WWU Alumni Association and Kevin Miller, a student at Western. Following is the story lineup for this episode:
1. Liberal Arts on Trial – Western Journalism alumnus and Seattle Times reporter Ron Judd (’85) has written his master’s thesis on the “red scare” that brought down former Western President Charles Fisher almost 80 years ago. (1:05)
2. Painting Bellingham Blue – Thousands of Western students headed downtown to the Farmer’s Market for a fun night of activities to kick off the new school year for the first annual “Paint Bellingham Blue” celebration, complete with music, fireworks and more. (11:22)
3. Free Falling ¬– Western pole vaulter Jacob Hino has battled through two years of crippling injuries to keep excelling at the sport he loves – and for that unforgettable feeling of falling, untethered, from the sky to the mat. (16:07)
4. Teaching by Questioning ¬– A number of Western faculty are working in a field called inquiry-based learning to better help their students grasp, understand, and practice the sciences such as Physics in new ways. (20:03)
The Great Depression, World War II and Washington's National Parks
Part of the State Capital Museum Lecture Series